Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-11-26

Gov. Shelby ut the battle Of Kings
Mountain, where he greatly distin-
guished himself as a patriot of hero
ism and undaunted bravery. During
the period from 1884 to 1888 he was
Governor of the State Of Franklin,
and was apprehended by the North
Carolina authorities on a charge of
rebellion against the State, and con-
veyed to Morganton, where he was
rescued by a party of his friends, and
returning he led a company against
the Indians. AS the last Tennesseans
were divided in sentiment, the State
of Franklin, after a turbulent exist
ence of four years, ceased to exist in
the year 1889. In that year he was
chosen a member of the North Caro-
lima Legislature, where an act of OBJ
livion was passed and he was rein
stated. On the organization of the
State of Tennessee he was chosen the
first Governor in 1893. Gov. Sewer
was a decendent of French Protest
ants whom Louis XIV prosecuted so
bitterly in France in 1885. He was
born in Rockingham County, Va,
Sept. 90, 1745, and died an honored
patriot in Alabama in 1916, aged 70
years.
SAMUEL NEWELL,
who was the first Secretary of the
State of Franklin, was born in Fred
erick County, Va, Nov. 1854. His
parents early settled on the Holston.
He engaged in the revolutionary war
against the Tories in April, 1776, and
in the summer following shared in
the battles of Long Island fats, and
of Holston, and in the same year was
appointed Sergeant in Capt. COlvilrE
Company, and Lieutenant in LIT,
serving several years on the frOntiers
In 1880 he took part in the expedi
ton against the Tories on New River
and then at Kings Mountain in Col
Wills Company, where he was badly
wounded, from which he never fully
recovered. In December of the same
year he went in Col. Arthur Camp
BELLS Cherokee expedition, and il
1871 was appointed Captain. He wa
much engaged in the protection of thu
Kentucky Road and Powell's Valley
and had many battles with the In
disns. Twice in 1882 overtaking wa,
parties, in one of which he and hi
men surrounded an Indian camp anC
his gun alone went off, the other
failed from becoming wet, but hi
} single shot killed one Indian an(
MORALLY wounded another. Capt
Newell early removed to French
, Broad River in Tennessee, where h
figured among the promoters of tn
Franklin government. He was Sec
2 rotary of State, and a member of tn
Franklin Legislature in 1885, and wa
: a member of the convention tina
framed the Constitution of Franklin
and at the close of that year wa
3 made a Justice of the Peace and
: Colonel of militia. In 1897, he re
moved to Pulaski County, KY,
Where he was long presiding justic
3 of the County Court, and in 1888 h
: removed to Montgomery County
D Ind, where at tn age of 81 years O.
Sept. q, he died. In Pulaski Count
: he left many descendants, the lat
l David Newell, who died in Califol
mia some years ago was his grandson
also Jno. Newell, of Point Burnside
is another grandson of his.
: ELDER JOHN SMITH,
OF "Raccoon memory" was a nativ
of the State of Franklin. He Wa
one of the great men of the olde
U time who did a great work in Ker
lucky, during the early days of tn
present reformation. He lahore
with Alexander Campbell in variou
U portions Of Kentucky. Mr.. CAM
bell regarded him as one of the mo-
natural, hard common sense men h
ever saw. He was born in 1884, an
y died in 1868, his remains wei
brought from Missouri, and were il
> tered in the Lexington cemeter.
by his brethren of the Broadwa
church. S. M. d.
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